Recovery of functional and structural age-related changes in the rat primary auditory cortex with operant training

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13900-13905

  De Villers Sidani, Etienne ^a   Alzghoul, Loai ^b   Zhou, Xiaoming ^c   Simpson, Kimberly L ^b   Lin, Rick C S ^b   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive decline; Inhibition; Parvalbumin; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; MALE; RATS;

EID: 77956360783     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007885107     Document Type: Article

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